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Grappling With Grace

Rilke said...

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.

Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again.

Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown.

That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being in the mood, but always forcibly to convert it into all things.

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Just in case you forgot how it really happens.

near the shop sink as a reminder..

Flow - in process

Wind Gates

The "employee" entrance to the Museum, built by The Metal Museum staff and students from Southern Illinois University

Flow (psychology)

Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. Proposed by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the positive psychology concept has been widely referenced across a variety of fields.[1]

According to Csíkszentmihályi, flow is completely focused motivation. It is a single-minded immersion and represents perhaps the ultimate in harnessing the emotions in the service of performing and learning. In flow the emotions are not just contained and channeled, but positive, energized, and aligned with the task at hand. To be caught in the ennui of depression or the agitation of anxiety is to be barred from flow. The hallmark of flow is a feeling ofspontaneous joy, even rapture,while performing a task.[2]

Colloquial terms for this or similar mental states include: to be on the ball, in the zone, in the groove, or keeping your head in the game.

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise...- Mark Twain in Eruption

View of the Arkansas / Tennessee bridge over the Mississippi from the Museum Bluff

“What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.” - Hal Boyle

M is for Mary Catherine! Mary Catherine Floyd that is! Check out her work @ http://mcfloyd.com/home.html

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Now, that's when you're really getting things done, nobody can even see you!

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Where its AT!

Visit the Stax Museum of American Soul Music! right here in good ole Memphis, TN, home of the blues, home of rock and roll and home of soul!

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.Beverly Sills

Jeannie Tomlinson doin' her job. Her footstool is only around 2000 degrees or so.

Sketches for waxes

Today's Inspiring Metal Arts Quote:

And the smith his iron measures hammered to the anvil's chime; Thanking God, whose boundless wisdom makes the flowers of poesy bloom In the forge's dust and cinders, in the tissues of the loom. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nuremberg

horse over and over gain. look closely

waxes in progress

Starball @ Star Apartments, Battle Creek, MI

Who's Watching? - Are you on the List?

Proposed new logo.. for me..

Phil is very happy in the con lab on his new bed from AmVets.

"Implement" on the museum grounds, built 1987 by Fred Borchett.

HAMMER DOWN!

Holly Fisher was born and raised in Marshalltown, Iowa. She received her BFA in Sculpture from Truman State University in 1992. In 1995, she completed her graduate studies at The University of Montana, Missoula, receiving her MFA in Sculpture. Holly has lived and worked as an artist in Kalamazoo, Michigan since 1995. She is the founder of SmartShop and serves as Program Director for SmartShop Metal Arts Center.
As a teacher and mentor, Holly recognizes the importance of fostering each individual’s artistic nature and providing her students with the knowledge and skills to strive for more informed works of art.
When creating her own artwork she studies traditional blacksmithing techniques and employs them to create contemporary objects. She picks her forms from the things that she loves; horses, coal mines, plants, and the vast wonders of the natural world.
When asked about her work and her medium, Holly emphatically states “I am constantly inspired by the natural world and strive to create lasting tributes in forged steel. I place my artistic focus on craftsmanship, character, beauty, and innovation, which makes for daily revelations and challenging yet fulfilling work.”